Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MoralitySocietyIndividualityConformityHabitsIndependenceSoul
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
MoralitySocietyIndividualityConformityHabitsIndependenceSoul
Sometimes following rules or customs is necessary for social cohesion.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon i…
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our m…
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, ins…
Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein, is the nobody to whom every Da-sein has alway…